What next, government sponsored movie theatres?
by Jim?Rutter
Today, at the National Mayor's conference in Washington DC, Iowa gov. Tom Vilsack received the National Award for State Art Leadership.???In his acceptance speech, he touted the $2 billion in?economic activity?generated by investments that that the state of Iowa has made in museums, libraries, convention centers, parks and bike trails.? Then he used his "success" to blast President Bush in rather curious terms, saying:
"We need to get our fiscal house in order and make long-term investment in infrastructure to make America competitive," Vilsack said in an interview.
I'm struggling to understand at what point musuems and bike trails started counting as infrastructure.? I guess anything that gets you an award from people with little conception of economics and zero economic constraint...